Dragon Haven (59 page)
She ran half a dozen steps before she had the courage to beat her wings. Her feet left the ground briefly, and then she crashed down again. But she didn’t fall. Her wings were open and wide and they caught her and cushioned her fall.
“Sintara!” she heard someone shout in awe. “Look at Sintara!”
Another dozen running steps and this time she beat her wings more slowly and powerfully.
And when she leaped, she left the ground behind.
Day the 17th of the Rain Moon
Year the 6th of the Independent Alliance of Traders
From Detozi, Keeper of the Birds, Trehaug
To Reyall, Acting Keeper of the Birds, Bingtown
Enclosed, a formal announcement from the Dushank Trader Family of the Rain Wild Traders, Trehaug, to be publicly posted in the Bingtown Traders’ Concourse, being an announcement of the intention of the Trader family of Dushank of the Rain Wild Traders to accept a marriage offer from the Dunwarrow Trader family to join their offspring in marriage.
Reyall!
And so you are the first to know of the official announcement.
Erek and Detozi
ROBIN HOBB
is the author of the Farseer, Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, and Soldier Son trilogies. She has also written as Megan Lindholm. She currently resides in Tacoma, Washington. Don’t miss the first book in the Rain Wilds Chronicles,
Dragon Keeper
, also available from Eos.
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LSO BY
R
OBIN
H
OBB
T
HE
R
AIN
W
ILDS
C
HRONICLES
Dragon Keeper
T
HE
S
OLDIER
S
ON
T
RILOGY
Shaman’s Crossing
Forest Mage
Renegade’s Magic
T
HE
F
ARSEER
T
RILOGY
Assassin’s Apprentice
Royal Assassin
Assassin’s Quest
T
HE
L
IVESHIP
T
RADERS
T
RILOGY
Ship of Magic
Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
T
HE
T
AWNY
M
AN
T
RILOGY
Fool’s Errand
Golden Fool
Fool’s Fate
W
RITING AS
M
EGAN
L
INDHOLM
Harpy’s Flight
The Limbreth Gate
The Windsingers
Luck of the Wheels
Wizard of the Pigeons
Reindeer People
Wolf’s Brother
Alien Earth
Cloven Hooves
The Gypsy
(with Steven Burst)
Jacket design by Richard Aquan
Jacket illustration by Steve Stone
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
DRAGON HAVEN
. Copyright © 2010 by Robin Hobb. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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